Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Responsibility

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

Bell, Alexander Graham

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.

Anderson, Walter

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Channing, William Ellery

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Waitley, Denis

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Browne, Harry

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

Simpson, O. J.

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.

Maher, Bill

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Mack, Connie

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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Crane, Frank

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Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.

Link, Henry C.

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The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

Robertson, Walter S.

25.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Waitley, Denis

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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Carlzon, Jan

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As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Tracy, Brian

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You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.

Allen, R. C.

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Brown, Les

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Smiles, Samuel

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

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I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

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We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

Newman, Mildred

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Ford, Henry